HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for Version 9.x

The icapmanage command can be used to install a grouping rules file, apply a GiCAP sharing
rights codeword, create and remove GiCAP groups, test if a server can be added to a GiCAP
group, update a GiCAP group by adding or removing members, show grouping rules and
supported hardware, seize core usage rights from member partitions of a GiCAP group to be
used by another member of the group, restore seized core usage rights to the original member
partition, update an existing GiCAP member by adding or removing hosts, set up and activate
a standby Group Manager, transfer the GiCAP database to the standby Group Manager, and
remove a standby Group Manager.
WBEM version A.02.05 or higher must be installed on the Group Manager, the standby Group
Manager (if any), and on all OS instances of all member systems in order to use Global Instant
Capacity. Similarly, the CIM Server configuration property sslClientVerificationMode
must be set to a value of “optional” on all Group Managers and member OS instances. (The CIM
Server may need to be restarted if the property was not previously set to this value.) For details,
see cimconfig(1M). Note that communication between the managers and members of groups is
established using SSL certificates that are supplied by the GiCAP software.
For a complete overview of Global Instant Capacity, see icap(5), and for more detailed information
see the HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for Version 9.x located at /usr/share/doc/
icapUserGuide.pdf.
Options
icapmanage recognizes these options and arguments:
-a
Add a GiCAP group, add a member to a group, or
designate a system as a standby Group Manager.
To create a new group, use the -a option, along with the
-g option to name the new group.
To add a member to a GiCAP group, use the -a option,
along with the -m option to specify a member name and
list of hostnames, and the -g option to specify the group
name. The list of hostnames must contain a representative
host for each nPartition or virtual partition of the complex,
and each host must be up and the Group Manager must
be able to contact it. (To avoid potential problems, the
Group Manger should also be able to contact any standby
manager that is defined.) To add multiple members to a
GiCAP group, you must run icapmanage -a -m -g
multiple times; you cannot specify multiple members in a
single command.
To add a standby Group Manager, use the -a option, along
with the -S option to identify the host system that is to
serve as the standby Group Manager.
-b
Provide brief status information only. Show summary
group information without information specific to the
Group Manager and the members.
-g <group_name>
Specify a GiCAP group name for a GiCAP operation.
-h Used with the -u option to identify hosts to be added to
or removed from an existing GiCAP group member's list.
A hostlist identifies hosts to be added. A hostlist preceded
by an exclamation point (!) identifies hosts to be removed.
There must be no intervening blanks within a hostlist, and
if both add and remove lists are specified, the entire string
must be contiguous.
-i
Install a grouping rules file on a Group Manager system.
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